Manufacturing Industry
Structural awards stack up for Steelcase.
Plastics News, April, 2002 by Miel, Rhoda
Engineers and designers assigned to create a new seating system for Steelcase Inc. spent two years sorting out joints, angles, pivot points and molding techniques. They reconsidered supplier relations and looked at market strategies. And they also put up with one running joke: ``Every time we told people what they were doing, they'd always say, `But we work for Steelcase, not Plasticcase,' '' said Nancy Funk, senior product engineer for seating in the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based office furniture giant's new-product development group.
As the firm's Cachet line of chairs goes into production this year, the business has pushed the envelope of what the furniture industry can do with structural plastics. The Cachet took home three top design awards at the...
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